Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. INTRODUCTION: STARTING POINTS 1
4. CHAPTER 1 FILM: THE MATRIX AND THE I-POD Approach: Cyberphilosophy 11
5. CHAPTER 2 BUILDING: SHOPPING IN UTOPIA Approach: Spatial Criticism 21
6. CHAPTER 3 MOVIE POSTER: ALIEN NATURE Approach: Ecocriticism 31
7. CHAPTER 4 POP VIDEO: MICHAEL JACKSON’S ‘THRILLER’ AND ‘RACE’ Approach: ‘Race’ Studies 40
8. CHAPTER 5 CELEBRITY: DIANA AND DEATH Approach: Trauma Theory 49
9. CHAPTER 6 TV SHOW: BIG BROTHER AFTER THE BIG OTHER Approach: Performativity Theory 60
10. CHAPTER 7 NEWSPAPER ARTICLE: THE GULF WAR IN REAL TIME AND VIRTUAL SPACE Approach: Hyperreality 74
11. CHAPTER 8 PHOTOGRAPH(ER): CINDY SHERMAN AND THE MASQUERADE Approach: Feminism 85
12. CHAPTER 9 POLITICAL SPEECH: MARGARET THATCHER’S HYMN AT THE SERMON ON THE MOUND Approach: Historicism 95
13. CHAPTER 10 CRITICAL TEXT: ALAN SOKAL’S SHAM TRANSGRESSION Approach: Reading Postmodernism 105
14. CHAPTER 11 POPULAR NOVEL: THE ETHICS OF HARRY POTTER Approach: Ethical Criticism 118
15. CHAPTER 12 SHORT STORY: BARTHELME’S BALLOON AND THE RHIZOME Approach: Deleuzian Criticism 128
16. CHAPTER 13 LYRIC: ‘WHERE’S MY SNARE?’: EMINEM AND SYLVIA PLATH Approach: Psychoanalytic Criticism 137
17. CHAPTER 14 AUTOBIOGRAPHY: MARTIN AMIS’S EXPERIENCE Approach: Self-Life-Writing 146
18. CHAPTER 15 VIRTUAL TEXT: AMAZONIAN DEMOCRACY Approach: Globalization Studies 156
19. CHAPTER 16 WORLD MEDIA EVENT: IT’S ABOUT TIME: CULTURAL HISTORY AT THE MILLENNIUM Approach: Cultural Studies 164
20. INDEX 173